What are they doing to milk that it’s causing death?

Never had a problem drinking milk straight from the cow when I was a kid staying with my grandparents on their cattle station, so what are they doing to this milk which causes death? #FreshMilk
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/12/11/three-year-old-child-dies-after-drinking-unpasteurised-milk-victoria

Looking after our returned service personnel…with MPs life gold passes

Fought for their country, should be looked after by their country.
AFMPA and all other former MPs could convert their life gold passes to cash and give to our returned service personnel or their surviving families. Sound fair AFMPA? no? why not?

#QLdElection2015 #ElectionQLd2015 #KaiJonesIndependent #VoteIndependent #ReturnedServicePersonnel #AFMPA #MentalHealth #LookAfterOurSoldiers

Formers MPs could convert their life gold passes to cash and give to our returned service personnel

Formers MPs could convert their life gold passes to cash and give to our returned service personnel

“Food for thought”- how much does your family eat in one week?

“Their portraits feature pictures of each family with a week’s worth of food purchases. We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Thus cultures can move, sometimes in a single jump, from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. And their health suffers.”
http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/what-the-world-eats-shocking-photos

Soft drink companies challenging the “sugar tax”

No wonder Coke and Pepsi are spending millions of dollars to fight proposed taxes on sugary drinks in California.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mexicos-junk-food-taxes-hit-pepsi-coke/story-e6frfkur-1227086254795

Tobacco products have known significant negative health impacts and tobacco companies are challenging plain packaging laws worldwide to protect their sales and profit. Other industries use products in a way which also have adverse effects on our health, should legislation exist for them too?

Where does the responsibility exist? is it..
– with the population to eat healthy and stay healthy?
– with corporations to operate ethically and with their consumers health in mind?
-with Governments to ensure that corporations and people act responsibly to allow health and other public services more resources to focus on the existing workload?

“Can disappearing desks improve how we work?”

“Can disappearing desks improve how we work?
A design studio in the Netherlands has found an imaginative way to encourage its employees to maintain a healthy work-life balance — at 6 p.m. their desks simply disappear.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/12/business/transformer-office-no-more-long-work-hours/